Reddit reviews Neewer Flash Mount Three Umbrellas Kit 33"/84cm White Soft/Silver Reflective/Gold Reflective Umbrella for Canon 430EX II,580EX II,Nikon SB600 SB800,Yongnuo YN 560,YN 565,Neewer TT560,TT680

> a better one for portrait photography.

For starters, portrait photography isn't about the camera as much as it is about the lenses and the lighting. Also, using good lenses on a mediocre body will get you far better results than using mediocre lenses on a good body. A D7500 is a better camera than a D3200, but the D3200 is probably not a major bottleneck to opening up opportunities in portraiture unless she already has good lenses and good lighting gear.

Questions:

• What lenses does she currently have?
  
• What lighting gear does she currently have?
  
• Is there something about the D3200 that is problematic? Does a D7500 solve it?
  
• What is your budget for this girlfriend gift?
  
  Let's assume that she has a D3200 with the 18-55 f/3.5-5.6 kit lens. It'll do, but you can get better lenses for portraiture than that. My ideal kit for that camera (or for a D7500) would be two lenses: Sigma 18-35 f/1.8 ($500 used) and the Sigma 50-100 f/1.8 ($600-700 used). (With third-party lenses, make sure to get the Nikon version, of course!) These are two of the best possible lenses you can get for a D3200, D5xxx, D7xxx, especially the latter, which is a zoom lens specifically designed for portraiture, as it covers all the classic portrait focal lengths.
  
  If you want something on more of a budget, but still excellent for portraiture, get her a Nikon 50mm f/1.8 AF-S ($150 used) and/or an 85mm f/1.8 AF-S ($350 used). These fixed-focal length lenses have great image quality, and between the two of those they'll cover pretty much all portrait needs. However, a high-quality zoom (with a fixed f/1.8 or f/2.8 aperture) is going to be a lot more versatile. If you can't get the 50-100 f/1.8 above, I'd get her a Sigma 50-150 f/2.8 lens. The newer "OS" 50-150 f/2.8 is wickedly sharp wide open at f/2.8 like the 50-100 f/1.8 is at f/1.8, it's great for portraits (covers all the classic focal lengths and then some), and it sells for only $400-450 or so used. The older non-OS 50-150 f/2.8 version is nice and sharp from f/4 on but only sells for $200 used, really quite a bargain but not as good as the OS model.
  
  If she already has good lenses, the next thing to get (or maybe at the same time) is a bit of lighting gear. You can go bananas on lighting gear, but a good basic kit is a flash, a flash controller, a light stand, and an umbrella. Nikon has a great infrared wireless flash system that works well with the D3200 or any other modern DSLR, and used flashes and gear are cheap. Get her a flash that's compatible with her camera like a Nikon SB-600 ($50-75), SB-700 (~$100), SB-800 ($75-125), or SB-910 ($250-300, skip the SB-900). Then, get a Nikon SU-800 flash controller ($75-100 used), which goes on the camera, plus a light stand and a big umbrella kit. You may want to get some rechargeable AA batteries as well.

Did some research, here's I think my bargain basement lighting kit, and good reviews too.

• $50 Neewer flash with wireless trigger. a nice manual flash that comes with a wireless trigger. You put one trigger on the flash, and the other in your camera's flash shoe, and bam, radio triggered flash.
  
• Neewer stand/shoe/umbrella kit for $33. It comes with three umbrellas.
  
• Rechargeable batteries for your flash. I've had good luck with my Energizers, and they are cheap at $13 for a charger + 4 AA's. I'd buy two of them because the cheapest price on a 4 pack is $11, so why not spend the extra $2 for the charger to have a backup charger.
  
  There, you're good to go for wireless flash for ~$100, manual flash power, works with any camera that has a flash shoe.
  
  If you can only spend $50, then just get the flash separately for $30 and the batteries. Then you can get the radio triggers, light stand, and umbrellas later when you have the money to spare.
  
  Also, eventually, you may want to get a larger umbrella - I use an Impact 60" convertible umbrella. Big, beautiful, soft light. I have two of these; they have 4.5 stars on amazon, great umbrella. They are a little unwieldy though; 60" is a big umbrella to deal with.

Just to confirm based on what you're saying on other threads too, you say your flash can only go up to 1/128 and you want something that goes up to 1/4000. Do you mean shutter speed sync? Because normally 1/128 means that the flash is only firing with that fraction of power from its 1/1 full power setting, so 1/4000 would be almost nothing.

Also umbrellas are extremely affordable, you can get a 3-umbrella kit with mount and tripod for under $35.

You can accomplish a lot with a single light.

I like the TT600s, but maybe hold off on buying more gear for now. Try to get good with your current flash before spending more money on gear. When you have experience, you'll have a much better idea of how to spend your money.

Presumably the Flash you have supports optical slave mode. Try using it off-camera; there are good guides to set that up.

If you're going to buy anything, I'd recommend a light stand, an umbrella holder, and an umbrella.

• https://amzn.com/B01HYM2IGK
  
• https://amzn.com/B01HHW7BAK
  
• https://amzn.com/B0000AQJD8
  
  Edit:
  
  Here's a kit. Not as good as the individual bits, but a lot cheaper: https://amzn.com/B01DJ11S6G

The harsh bit of information is: you're not going to be able to get good results with no experience and a £100 budget.

Basically, for that level, you'll only have full manual flashes, so will need to understand how and why you're adjusting the settings (which will be limited) on that budget.

However, in the UK, look to amazon, for the brand Neewer.
You will want the following items:

• a light stand
  
• a shoe mount
  
• a large diffuser - an umbrella or octobox are typical
  
• remote triggers (cable or radio)
  
• a flash
  
  An example set up of this can be a lighting kit of the stand, umbrella, and mount at £25, a full manual flash for £26, and very basic transmitter and receiver for £11
  
  Be warned though: this kit is not brilliant. But can be a reasonable starting point to get an idea of what to do.
  
  The other alternative is to find and see if you can have the scene naturally lit, and use some form of reflector (large bit of white cardboard can help for cheap) to add some fill in the shadows.